Palestinian prisoners begin landmark hunger strike
Monday, 10 June 2013 13:14
There are over 200 administrative prisoners in Israeli prisons, all of whom will be joining the hunger strike within days
Palestinian
administrative detainees in Israeli prisons began an open-ended hunger
strike on Monday in protest against their detention for extended periods
of time without trial, Palestine's Prisoners Centre said.
In a
statement released by the prisoners centre, it was confirmed that four
administrative prisoners have begun a hunger strike which will be
expanded and extended if the Israeli prison services do not respond to
their demands.
More administrative prisoners, including ten
MPs, are planning to join the hunger strike day after day. There are
over 200 administrative prisoners in Israeli prisons, all of whom will
be joining the hunger strike within days.
The prisoners began
discussions about this strike several months ago, and decided to start a
collective protest because of Israel's continuous detention of
Palestinians without setting trials for them, and because of the Israeli
prisons services' repeated retraction of individual agreements to end
administrative detention.
Palestine's Prisoners Centre said
that the hunger strikers have called for widespread Palestinian official
and popular support for their action. They said that it would be a
historical strike as they are planning to achieve landmark results
regarding Israel's policy of administrative detention.
Most
administrative prisoners live in tents located in al-Naqab Prison where
weather conditions are sweltering during the summer months and extremely
cold during the winter.
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